boatmobile

English

Etymology

Blend of boat and bookmobile

Noun

boatmobile (plural boatmobiles)

  1. A boat that operates as a bookmobile.
    • 2008 February 22, Susan Saulny, “Across the Bay, on a School Bus Wearing Skis”, New York Times:
      For residents of this remote village on an ice-locked island off the tip of mainland Wisconsin, the gliding boatmobile, known here as a windsled, is a kind of school bus.
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